Author: Derek O'Brien
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 342
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143031376
Description
Everything you need to know about the best of Hollywood.
This history of Hollywood is full of legends. Celluloid giants like Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn continue to spell magic for moviegoers across the globe. Directors like Welles, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese and Tarantino have defined cinema as an art form. And films like Gone with the Wind, the Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Ben-Hur, the Sound of Music, The Godfather, Star Wars and Titanic have set new standards in entertainment.
Hollywood: the 100 Greatest Films is a quick guide to the very best of Hollywood.. Derek O’Brien provides a list of movies that are his personal favourites, and absolute must-sees for anyone who enjoys cinema. The write-up for the hundred films includes complete case and credits, the storyline, the USP of each film, and a wealth of interesting asides, such as:
Rear Window was filmed entirely on one confined set-a realistic courtyard composed of thirty-two apartments.
Tm Cruise was initially considered to play John f Nash in A Beautiful Mind.
Rick’s classic last line in Casablanca, Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship was added after shooting was completed.
For the film buff who wants to brush up on movie facts as well as the general reader fascinated by the glamour, adventure and romance of Hollywood, this book will be a useful reference tool and a delightful read.
Contents
PREFACE
The African Queen
All About Eve
All The President’s Men
Amadeus
American Beauty
American Graffiti
An American in Paris
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
A Beautiful Mind
Ben-Hur
The Birth of a Nation
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chicago
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dances With Wolves
Dirty Harry
Double Indemnity
Duck Soup
Easy Rider
E T the Extraterrestrial
The Exorcist
Fargo
Forrest Gump
Frankenstein
The French Connection
From Here to Eternity
The General
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Gold Rush
Gone With the Wind
The Graduate
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
High Noon
Intolerance
It Happened one Night
Jaws
The Jazz Singer
Jurassic Park
King Kong
Kramer VS Kramer
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Maltese Falcon
Midnight Cowboy
Modern times
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Mutiny on the Bounty
My Fair Lady
Ninotchka
North By Northwest
On the Waterfront
One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Patton
Planet of the Apes.
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Rain Man
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Rocky
Roman Holiday
Scarface
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin in the Rain
Snow white and the seven dwarfs
Some Like it hot
Sons of the Desert
The Sound of Music
Stagecoach
A Star is Born
Star Wars
A streetcar Named
Desire
Sunrise
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
The Ten Commandments
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Titanic
Tootsie
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
2001: A Space Odyssey
The untouchables
Vertigo
Wall Street
West side Story
The Wizard of oz
Wuthering Heights